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The intelligence community is preparing a series of reports on the impacts of climate change on individual countries like China and India, a study of alternative fuels and a look at how major power relations could be strained by a changing climate.
If the administration does succeed in getting the website in working order in the coming weeks, the system will be strained by a backlog of pending applications and a crush of consumers frantically trying to get their coverage in place before the new year.
But Edward Smeloff, executive director of the Pace Law School Energy Project, said Entergy's financial resources would be strained by an extended outage at one or both plants and the resulting penalties from being unable to sell power back to the power authority.
China-Australia relations have already been strained by a series of recent diplomatic controversies.
The push to install a democracy here is strained by a bitterness expressed by many Falluja residents.
See articleRelations between Russia and NATO member Norway were strained by a naval incident.
The debate over the temporary constitution has been strained by a number of issues, especially the role of Islam in governing the country.
This effort to salvage a dire real estate situation through very expensive government support was transpiring at an unfortunate juncture; the empire's finances were strained by a costly military commitment in a remote and clan-riven territory.
The vote came as relations between the countries were strained by a House committee's passage last week of a bill calling the World War I-era mass killing of Armenians an act of genocide.
Traffic jams in Riyadh and other Saudi cities have become a constant affliction, while real estate values have soared and the construction sector is strained by a lack of workers.
America's relationship with Turkey is being strained by a planned vote in the American Congress that would classify the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Army as genocide.
